[CW] Morse code announced to be Immaterial World Heritage

[Donald Chester via CW]

You were probably there about the same time I was. We missed out on the old
Radio Marina towers that used to stand on what was later called Tract A. I
have seen photos, two self-supporting four-sided towers probably 200 ft. or
more high, built by the Italians prior to WWII, used for Italian naval
communication I was told. Something right out of radio history, It was a
real shame that they tore them down. They probably supported a multi-wire
flat-top or cage antenna.  I could imagine stringing a HF dipole between
them. Long after the towers were gone, locals  still called Tract A "Radio
Marina".

About 15 years ago, I found out after the fact that a  group of local hams
had gone on a DX-pedition to Eritrea. I might have tried to join them if I
had known about it in advance. Considering the  political turmoil that has
enveloped that part of the world, I think you are right; it wouldn't be
advisable for Americans or Brits to travel there now.

Don k4kyv


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From: Danny Douglas via CW <cw at mailman.qth.net>

I served Uncle Sam, in a small base called Kagnew Station, up on an
8,000 ft high mountain in Ethiopia.  Our little home brew 2 element, 3 band
Quad, sat on top of a water tower, at the highest point in the city of
Asmara.  It was so far up that our rotator wouldnt work because we didnt
have a large enough control wire and the wire wouldnt deliver enough voltage
to turn it.  We sat it pointing stateside and there we 
worked EVERYBODY.    But I digress,  and the true "old" antenna was a 
buried cable, maybe thousands of feet long, which I saw there.  It had
previously been used by the small Naval contingent there, to communicate
with submarines in the Red Sea.  I dont know how that worked - but
apparently did.  Probably still there, if anyone wants to go to Eritrea and
put it on the air.  Suggestion - DONT.


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